Neuropsychological Tests

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Prefrontal interactions reflect future task operations.

When task instructions are given, the human brain establishes a task set before the task is actually performed. By introducing a delay between the instruction and the task, we have identified the neural correlates of task sets using functional magnetic ...
Katsuyuki Sakai, Richard E Passingham (Nat Neurosci, 200301)
prefrontal-interactions-reflect-future-task-operations.asp

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Insight in schizophrenia: associations with executive function and coping style.

It has been suggested that lack of awareness of illness in schizophrenia may result from deficits in executive function and/or an avoidant style of coping. To examine this question, 132 persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders were rated as either ...
Paul H Lysaker, Gary J Bryson, Rebecca S Lancaster, Jovier D Evans, Morris D Bell (Schizophr Res, 200301)
insight-schizophrenia-associations-executive-function-coping-style.asp

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Relationships between event-related potentials and neuropsychological tests in neurologically healthy adults.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between conventional neuropsychological tests and an event-related potential (P300). Subjects were 118 neurologically normal healthy adults 18-74 years old with no history of neurological, ...
Shinichiro Maeshima, Ryuji Okita, Hiroo Yamaga, Fuminori Ozaki, Hiroshi Moriwaki (J Clin Neurosci, 200301)
relationships-event-related-potentials-neuropsychological-tests.asp

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The Maudsley Bipolar Disorder Project: the effect of medication, family history, and duration of illness on IQ and memory in bipolar I disorder.

BACKGROUND: Despite the growing recognition of the importance of cognitive impairment in psychiatric disorders, the effect of clinical factors, such as medication use and family history of affective disorders, on cognition in bipolar I disorder patients ...
Stuart Donaldson, Laura H Goldstein, Sabine Landau, Vanessa Raymont, Sophia Frangou (J Clin Psychiatry, 200301)
maudsley-bipolar-disorder-project-effect-medication-family-history.asp

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The contribution of recollection and familiarity to recognition memory: a study of the effects of test format and aging.

Whether the format of a recognition memory task influences the contribution of recollection and familiarity to performance is a matter of debate. The authors investigated this issue by comparing the performance of 64 young (mean age = 21.7 years; mean ...
Christine Bastin, Martial Van der Linden (Neuropsychology, 200301)
contribution-recollection-familiarity-recognition-memory-study.asp

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Large sexual-orientation-related differences in performance on mental rotation and judgment of line orientation tasks.

This study examined the performance of heterosexual and homosexual men and women on 2 tests of spatial processing, mental rotation (MR) and Benton Judgment of Line Orientation (JLO). The sample comprised 60 heterosexual men, 60 heterosexual women, 60 ...
Qazi Rahman, Glenn D Wilson (Neuropsychology, 200301)
large-sexual-orientation-related-differences-performance-mental.asp

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Neuropsychological functioning pretreatment and posttreatment in an inpatient eating disorders program.

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine whether neuropsychological dysfunction associated with anorexia nervosa resolves with inpatient treatment. METHOD: Subjects were 28 women being treated for anorexia nervosa. Main study variables included ...
David J Moser, Michelle L Benjamin, John D Bayless, Bradley D McDowell, Jane S Paulsen, Wayne A Bowers, Stephan Arndt, Arnold E Andersen (Int J Eat Disord, 200301)
neuropsychological-functioning-pretreatment-posttreatment-inpatient.asp

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Effect of manipulation and irrelevant noise on working memory capacity of patients with Alzheimers dementia.

The effect of manipulation and distracting noise on immediate serial recall was measured in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), neurologically healthy elderly individuals, and young adults. In Experiment 1, the authors compared serial ...
Sylvie Belleville, Nancie Rouleau, Martial Van der Linden, Fabienne Collette (Neuropsychology, 200301)
effect-manipulation-irrelevant-noise-working-memory-capacity-patients.asp

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Functional representation of 3D space in endogenous attention shifts.

The aim of this study was to explore whether the attentional system, as far as an endogenous orienting is concerned, allocates resources along the sagittal plane and whether such a process is affected by, and is likely to be based on, different ...
Alessandro Couyoumdjian, Francesco Di Nocera, Fabio Ferlazzo (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
functional-representation-d-space-endogenous-attention-shifts.asp

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Category learning deficits in Parkinsons disease.

Sixteen patients with Parkinsons disease (PD), 15 older controls (OCs), and 109 younger controls (YCs) were compared in 2 category-learning tasks. Participants attempted to assign colored geometric figures to 1 of 2 categories. In rule-based tasks, ...
F Gregory Ashby, Sharon Noble, J Vincent Filoteo, Elliot M Waldron, Shawn W Ell (Neuropsychology, 200301)
category-learning-deficits-parkinson-s-disease.asp